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Chapter 10 of 23 · FRAT · Flight Risk Assessment

Score the riskbefore you dispatch.

Score a flight's risk before it goes: weighted factors for crew, weather, airport, aircraft and operation combine into one pre-departure number. Thresholds decide whether the flight proceeds, needs a mitigation, or requires a sign-off, and every score is kept so the trend across the fleet is visible over time.

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The flight scores
A Northgale crew opens the flight risk assessment before an evening rotation into a short, wet runway. The factors score from the catalog, the total crosses the review threshold, and dispatch sees it before the aircraft moves.
In the operation
FRATFlight Risk Assessment
4capabilities
2record types
3linked modules
Why it holds

A threshold gates dispatch, it does not just colour a cell.

The weighted factors produce a number the operation acts on: below the line it proceeds, above it a mitigation or a sign-off is required. Scores are retained, so a rising trend across a route or a season is a signal, not a surprise.

What it does

The capabilities, on one record.

Pre-departure scoring

Crew, weather, airport, aircraft and operation combine into one weighted risk score before dispatch.

Threshold gates

Bands decide proceed, mitigate or escalate for sign-off, so the score changes what happens next.

Score trend

Every assessment is retained, so rising risk across a route, fleet or season is visible.

Linked to the operation

A high score can raise a hazard or feed an occurrence, so the assessment is part of the operational picture.

The records it produces

Real records, one reference each.

Every record carries a stable reference and a source on every field. Nothing is silently overwritten, and the trail is the record.

The score is computed from weighted factors, not guessed

A threshold gates dispatch, it does not just warn

Every score is retained for the trend

High risk links back into the operation

FRAT
Risk assessments
Weighted, pre-departure scores.
HAZ
Hazards
Raised when a score runs high.
The gate

Elevated risk routes to a person.

A flight that scores past the threshold cannot be self-approved. It routes to the named reviewer with the factors visible, and the decision is recorded.

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11 · Aerodrome Risk

The flight is assessed before it departs. The next chapter does the same for the ground the operation stands on: the aerodrome.